Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and the Virgin Mary.

I have a fork and a spoon, but never a knife… as if I’m lacking manual skills or teeth. I have both, however. That’s why I’m not allowed a knife.

The future of narrative? Built in, part of the human template. Not going away. The future of the codex book, with pages and so forth? A platform for transmitting narratives. There are others. The scroll is coming back (Twitter is a scroll.) Short forms are returning online. Interactivity is coming back; it was always there in oral storytelling. Each form has its pluses and its minuses.

Myths can't be translated as they did in their ancient soil. We can only find our own meaning in our own time.

If a god showed up every time you put a quarter in the prayer slot it wouldn't be God, it would be a puppet that you could control by doing that...that would make the deity subservient to you. So it wouldn't be a deity would it?

In the evenings there's been thunder, a distant bumping and stumbling, like God on a sullen binge.